November 2006 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Edublog awards
by Mary-Helen Ward 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Nominations are being sought for this year's edublog awards: http:// incsub.org/awards/2006/edublog-awards-2006-nominations-open/ Have at it! M-H

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AoIR Student Blog Community Forming
by Mary-Helen Ward 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

AoIR is sponsoring the formation of a student blog community in which AoIR student members can have their blogs listed and linked on the AoIR home page. If you wish to join, simply email me <mhward(a)usyd.edu.au> with 'AoIR student blogs' in the subject line and include the following information: - your name (or the pseudonym you would like to appear in the list) - the name of your blog - the url of your blog - a sentence summarising your research area/interest/focus. Background At the AoIR conference in Brisbane a small group of graduate students met with Ted Coopman, the graduate student representative on the AoIR Exec. One of the things that was suggested by participants at that meeting was the possibility that some central place be created with a list of the blogs of graduate student members of the Association. The Executive enthusiastically supported this member-generated idea and approved a small button I've designed that people can use on their blogs. The intention is to help form a student community of common interest - many of us are already linking to each other and have each other on RSS feeds, but this would create a quick way to connect with and for new student members. Also, at the PhD colloquium in Brisbane many PhD presenters reported that they found the input from faculty present to be really helpful, especially as we're all working in such a multi-disciplinary and 'out there' academic area and many of us have supervisors with more traditional research experience. Having our blogs linked would mean that we could bring up issues we were concerned about for discussion among a wider audience that has a deeper understanding of the issues of our research areas than many of the people we are in face-to-face contact with. It would also give faculty members in AoIR a way to learn the research interests of the graduate student members of this new and rapidly expanding discipline. If you know student members of the organisation who aren't on this list feel free to pass this email on to them. Mary-Helen __ Educational Developer Flexible Online Learning Team USyd eLearning Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor, Teaching and Learning

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Academic Humor
by Sam Tilden 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Is anyone aware of a list or Usenet that is devoted to academic humor? Sam --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

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Re: [Air-l] CMC and Folklore
by Zilia C. Estrada 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Folklore is a lot 'bigger' than is often conceptualized. Take a look at the broad range of work done by one of the contemporary leaders in the field, Alan Dundes, for example, under the folklore umbrella. His work included studies of national character, ethnic slurs, and more. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_200410/ai_n15846386 A brief overview of Dundes' work. (He died last year.) It does not have to be vernacular or "traditional" to allow for study under a folklore framework. Dundes was the one who posited that any two individuals could be identified as a group--and that anything that went on particular to that group was game for folklore studies. From that angle, AoIR could be constructed as a folk group with its own set of practices and identifications--which could be explored using CMC techniques. The field is wide open. Zilia -- Zilia C. Estrada Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology School of Library and Information Science Indiana University, Bloomington zestrada(a)indiana.edu On 11/6/06, RGH <rgh(a)rghoward.com> wrote: > What happens if you start to shift the "folklore and CMC" to > "vernacular media" or "everyday media use" or "traditional expression > in CMC"? Would other stuff come into the sphere? > > Rob > > >digital ethnography, transcri[bed,ption] oral histories, digital mythology > >.... ;) > > > >i'm sure there are several other plausible reference points that listies > >can throw out to help.... listies, what say you? > > > >--elijah > > > > > >On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, sigalz(a)shaw.ca wrote: > > > >> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:46:45 -0700 > >> From: sigalz(a)shaw.ca > >> Reply-To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >> Subject: Re: [Air-l] CMC and Folklore > >> > >> > >> hello, > >> > >> What other key words would you use other than: CMC + Folklore? > >> > >> Sigalit > >> > >> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >>> > >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >>> http://www.aoir.org/ > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >>> > >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >>> http://www.aoir.org/ > >> > >> ---------------------------------------- > >> Caroline Haythornthwaite > >> Associate Professor > >> Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois > >> at Urbana-Champaign > >> 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> http://www.aoir.org/ > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> http://www.aoir.org/ > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >>http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> http://www.aoir.org/ > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >http://www.aoir.org/ > > > -- > Robert Glenn Howard > Assistant Professor > > Department of Communication Arts > University of Wisconsin - Madison > rgh(a)rghoward.com > http://rghoward.com > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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market for digital humanities
by Davis, Boyd 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

A task force at my university is looking into developing graduate work/degrees in digital humanities, however broadly construed, and I'd be grateful for any information or suggestions with regard to potential market or opportunities for people coming through such a program. Boyd Davis bdavis(a)email.uncc.edu if you'd rather not reply to the list

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Web Science a Field of Study
by Richard Forno 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

(for those who havent' heard yet.......rf) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in Britain plan to announce today that they are starting a joint research program in Web science. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web¹s basic software, is leading the program. An Oxford-educated Englishman, Mr. Berners-Lee is a senior researcher at M.I.T., a professor at the University of Southampton and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, an Internet standards-setting organization. Web science, the researchers say, has social and engineering dimensions. It extends well beyond traditional computer science, they say, to include the emerging research in social networks and the social sciences that is being used to study how people behave on the Web. And Web science, they add, shifts the center of gravity in engineering research from how a single computer works to how huge decentralized Web systems work. < - > NY Times http://tinyurl.com/tkxgf

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Re: [Air-l] Web Science a Field of Study
by Ulf-Dietrich Reips 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

A pointer to our 2001 book and our journal, if someone is keen enough to explore the relationship between Web science and Internet science ;-) Reips, U.-D., & Bosnjak, M. (Eds.)(2001). Dimensions of Internet Science. Lengerich: Pabst. http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/sowi/reips/dis/ International Journal of Internet Science (http://www.ijis.net) Best --u -- PD Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips President, Society for Computers in Psychology (http://scip.ws) Editor, International Journal of Internet Science (http://www.ijis.net) *new address* Universität Zürich Psychologisches Institut Binzmühlestr. 14/13 8050 Zürich, Switzerland iScience portal (http://psych-iscience.unizh.ch/)

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Re: [Air-l] Web Science a Field of Study
by Ep1curas＠aol.com 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Sam, TBL did not give us 'this world which we are supposed to be researching researching' in its present state. Personally I don't see where his great insight into the web comes from. To make what might be a very poor comparison..one would not automatically assume that someone who has developed and refined the technology behind television to have a great understanding of how television programmes are produced and how they impact on the consuming public. For all his achievements, I think it is wrong to suggest that he is somehow more qualified than people who have dedicated many years to the kind of rigorous study he is only now proposing. 'TBL has more stature than the bulk of us and comments below do not show collegiality and cross-disciplinarity to the world community' I'd contend that conventional social scientists are better placed to explore this sphere than TBL. It is not a lack of collegiality to point out that TBL is not inventing the wheel with these kinds of proposals. I also wouldn't think that his statements about what the web 'should be' are especially helpful in conducting research and explaining what currently is. Martin Calvert

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FW: JOB AVAILABLE: social policy / evaluation in charity
by Ben Anderson 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

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Re: [Air-l] CMC and Folklore
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

One more on CMC and folklore ... Betsy Hearne & Anna Nielsen (2004). Catch a Cyber by the Tale: Online Orality and the Lore of a Distributed Learning Community. In C. Haythornthwaite & M.M. Kazmer (Eds.). Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice (pp. 59-87). NY: Peter Lang. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:12:16 -0700 >From: sigalz(a)shaw.ca >Subject: Re: [Air-l] CMC and Folklore >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > >Hello, > > >Thank you all for your great help! >I look forward to read Nancy's and Rob's articles and I appreciate all the >important references you have sent. > > >Sigalit > > >_______________________________________________ >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ > > >_______________________________________________ >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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